Pipe attachment.



which may be manufactured and WILFRED ELLIOTT TAI'T, OF BEVERLY, ASSACH'UTTS.

. PIPE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application led Ianuaryxll, 1910. Serial No. 537,448.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILFRED ELLIOTT TArr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pipe attachments, and more particularly to an improved attachment for smoking pipes, the object of the iivcution being to -provide anattachment of this character which may be sclf-supporting in the bowl of thepipe and will serve as a base or bottom in the bowl upon which the tobacco is placed, leaving a space below the attachment and the bottom of the bowl, which is kept free from tobacco, allowing' a free draft through the pipe in smoking, and permit ting the ash and unburned tobaccoto be readily drawn out of the bowl when desired. A further object is to provide an improved attachment of this character which is esecially designed for cleaning the cake or urned accumulation on the sides of the )bowl without cutting into the wood of the owl.

A further object is to provide 'animproved attachment ofthis character which is designed to fit in any ordinary pipe, and sold at a very low cost, and which will most effectually perform the functionsfor which it is intended.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed outY in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improved attachment in position in a pipe. Fig. 2 is a view in cross section through the bowl shown in Fig. 1. perspective View' of the attachment. l

l represents an ordinary smoking pipe and 2 the bowl, the lower end of which communicates with the duct 3 leading to the mouth piece la.

4 represents my improved attachment -whichjis composed of a single piece of spring sheet'metal, forming 'a concave-convex bowl or saucer 5, having a large number of small perforations 6 therein, and two spring arms Fig' is a detailed 7, 7, located at opposite sides ot the upper edge of the bowl 5 and flaring outward as shown, so as to fit snugly against the inner face of the bowl 2. The upper ends of these arms 7, 7, are bent outward and curved slightly upward as shown at S, so as to afford finger holds for turning the attachment in the bowl, to clean out the calze, and

to project the ends awayfrom the hot bowi and keep them comparatively ceci.

In operation the attachment is preferably pushed down into the bowl as shown in Figs. l and 2, and the smoking tobacco placed in the bowl, and is supported above the bottom of the bowl by reason of the saucer or bowl 5 of the attachment, 'so that in the bottom of the bowl where moisture accumulates, the email particles tobacco do not accumulate to plug' up the duct. 3, and permit a 'free smoke at ali times, and this also prevents any burning of the bottom oit the bowl. When the pipe is inverted, the ash will fall out.

-To completely clean the pipe, the ends of arms T, 7, are grasped and the attachment is pulled out of the bowl, drawing with it 'the ash and unburned tobacco.

To clean the cake from the inner tace of the bowl, the attachment is positioned as shown in Figs. l and 2, when by grasping the upper ends 8 ot' arms 7, 7, the attachment may be revolved inside the bowl, and due to the action of the spring arms Y, 7, bearing outward against the surface of the bowl, the shari edges of the bowl will the /cake and clean the bowl, and it' this rotary movement is performed every little while, clean and the bowl its full size; for it is well known that with ordinary pipes the formation ot' cake on theinner :tace of the bowl gradually decreases the internal area of the bowl. I

Various slight changes might loe-made in Patented nomia, rem.

the pipe may be kept thoroughiy cut the general formand arrangement of parts described Without departing from my invention, and hence do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at' liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is l. An attachment Afor smoking pipes consisting of a'sheet metal, perforated, concave.;-

convex, Saucer-hire bowl, fiat, integral pi e upward, forming linger holds free from e011- taot with the pipe bowl, whereby when said liiliger holds are moved to' turn the attachniient said arms will cut the cake from the inside of the bowl, substantially as describedn 2. In combination with a smoking;r pipe having,r a bowl, the wall of which tapers inward from its upper to 'its lower end, of an attachment in said bowl Comprising a concave-convex, perforated, sheet metal, saucerlike bowl, pipe bowl cleaning spring` arms i i l i l i at opposite sides of said attachment bowl bearing against the inclined tapering surface of said pipe bowl, and the upper ends of y said arms bent outward and upward and engaging over the upper edge of said pipe bowl forming finger holds free from Contact with the pipe bowl, whereby when said finger holds are moved to turn the attachment said arms will cut the cake from the ins-ide of the pipe bowl, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presenf'e of two subscribing witnesses. l

WILFRED ELLTOTT TAIT. Witnesses Bnmixfim A. PATCH, HENRY NICOLL. 

